1. After the winter By Claude McKay
Presented By Gage Wilkins

2. Biography
McKay was born in Jamaica in September 15, He was educated by his brother his brother also wrote poems to and other thing s like novels. In 1912 he Published a book of a verse called Jamaica (Gardner). The same year he traveled to America to attend Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

3. After The Winter The structure Rhyme Scheme 17 lines 4 stanzas
By Claude McKay
Someday, when trees have shed their leaves
And against the morning’s white
The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night,
We’ll turn our faces southward, love,
Toward the summer isle
Where bamboos spire the shafted grove
And wide-mouthed orchids smile.
And we will seek the quiet hill
Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
And works the droning bee.
And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade.

4. Speaker After The Winter Speaker 
By Claude McKay
Someday, when trees have shed their leaves
And against the morning’s white
The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night,
We’ll turn our faces southward, love,
Toward the summer isle
Where bamboos spire the shafted grove
And wide-mouthed orchid’s smile.
And we will seek the quiet hill
Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
And works the droning bee.
And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade.
Speaker 
The speaker is a child that likes the winter and does not want it to go away.

5. poetic/literary element
After The Winter
By Claude McKay
Someday, when trees have shed their leaves A
And against the morning’s white B
The shivering birds beneath the eaves A
Have sheltered for the night, B
We’ll turn our faces southward, love, C
Toward the summer isle D
Where bamboos spire the shafted grove C
And wide-mouthed orchids smile. D
And we will seek the quiet hill E
Where towers the cotton tree, F
And leaps the laughing crystal rill, E
And works the droning bee. F
And we will build a cottage there G
Beside an open glade, H
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, G
And ferns that never fade. H
Literary elements
End rhyme

6. Imagery
Where Bamboos spire the shafted grove and wide-mouth orchids smile.
Someday when trees have shed there leaves and against the morning's white the shivering birds beneath the eaves have sheltered for the night

7. Imagery And we will build a cottage there Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,

8. Literal meaning
The poem is talking about how it was winter and it’s turning spring and when it turns spring the leaves fall off the tree and the grow new leaves again.

9. Figurative meaning
The figurative meaning

10. Authors meaning
The meaning for the authors meaning for the poem is to show how when winter is over and it begins to be spring and how everything is re growing.

11. Authors purpose
The authors purpose is to teach people about how winter changes to spring.

12. Theme
Theme is

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